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4:32 PM, Thursday May 28th 2020
Hi, ItsMartin. Just took a look at your exercises and, while they're overall good, there's a few aspects you should pay more attention in order to improve.
Your lines are noticeably arching. This can happen when you're not using the motion of the shoulder to draw. If you mix some elbow motion, the lines tend to arch.
On your ghosted planes you didn't plot the inner lines. Always place dots before drawing each line, as this will work as a goal to draw your line to. Having goals ike this can make you notice your mistakes better and help you improve.
One thing I noticed on your ellipses is that you're not drawing through them. Always go another time over each ellipse. On your funnels exercise, some of your ellipses are not well aligned to the minor axis (central line).
While your rotated boxes are overall good, you could have shaded the sides better. Hatching should be done consciously. Each line you draw during hatching is a line your practice. In this exercise I also noticed that in some occasions you wen over the same lines more than once. Plot your lines with dots, ghost them well and draw each one only once.
Your last exercise is also good. It has a nice composition and you took the risk in overlapping some of the boxes. One think you could have done was slightly increase the line weight of the overlapping lines in order to highlight that they are in front.
Good job in this lesson and good luck on the next ones.
Next Steps:
250 boxes challenge.
5:02 PM, Thursday May 28th 2020
Hello Pedro. Thank you so much for taking the time to respond. In rotated boxes I got kinda lost and I was guessing the lines instead of thinking about them. Next time I will get a break and go back with a fresh mindset. Also from now I will do my every construction line with dots first, then ghosting.
Thank you once again, you helped me a ton!
Staedtler Pigment Liners
These are what I use when doing these exercises. They usually run somewhere in the middle of the price/quality range, and are often sold in sets of different line weights - remember that for the Drawabox lessons, we only really use the 0.5s, so try and find sets that sell only one size.
Alternatively, if at all possible, going to an art supply store and buying the pens in person is often better because they'll generally sell them individually and allow you to test them out before you buy (to weed out any duds).